Sunday Linkblast - Sept 20

• Habitat for Humanity Building Site in Regina looted
  If you've got some spare income or time, there are few groups more deserving of support.
  
  
• The essential, underlying bailout mistake:
  Bailing out the banks rather than the people crippled by their debt to the banks.
  
  
• Peggy Noonan goes on Sunday talk show to criticize Obama for going on Sunday talk shows.
  Next she'll be complaining about other people's obnoxious hypocrisy.
  
  
• Feminist Revival in Italy
  Berlusconi is enough of an oinker to spawn a rebirth of Italian feminism.
  
  
• Paralysis cured in rats
  A mix of drugs, electrical stimulation and exercise and they were on their feet again
  
  
• Swine Flu could kill millions this year
  Without massive support from the developed world the developing world could face massive death and unrest.
  
  
• Canadian poverty level so bad even Conference Board of Canada concerned
  Nobody should draw any unreasonably logical conclusions about the correspondence between Conservative governance and the increase in poverty
  
  
• On the other hand an increase in prosperity leads to a corresponding decrease in religion
  The real reason for the alliance between extremist religion and regressive political ideology in opposition to poverty alleviation?
  
  
• Beyond Right and Left
  Bill Vander Zalm, one of the most reactionary right-wing politicians in Canadian history joins BC leftists in opposing the HST
  
  
• A belated apology to Alan Turing
  The father of modern computer science finally gets an apology for the official persecution for his homosexuality
  
  
• American FCC about to support Net Neutrality?
  An announcement coming Monday.
  
  
• Alan Moore's Grimoire
  An interview about many subjects including his coming book The Moon and Serpent Book of Magic, synthesizing all his views on ceremonial magic.